“…Therefore, mesoporous Ni-Al 2 O 3 catalysts have attracted much attention in order to achieve high nickel dispersion [18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26]. A large number of preparation methods such as sol-gel method [18,20], templating-method [6,24], impregnation method [17][18][19], and co-precipitation method [21,22,25] have been proposed for the preparation of mesoporous Ni-Al 2 O 3 catalysts with high nickel dispersion. Among these preparation methods, co-precipitation method has been considered as the most conventional technique for the preparation of mesoporous Ni-Al 2 O 3 catalysts due to its economic advantage, high reproducibility, and high homogeneity [25,26].…”